...them. I think that what helps children most of all at this point is their heightened activity level. Learning to read, or at first to identify printed...(p. 27). This view applies quite well to learning to read. The printed word 'belongs' to the spontaneous speller far more directly than to children who...

...with the language. The focus is on students learning rather than on me teaching. To paraphrase Piaget. every time we teach a child something we keep him from inventing it for himself. The goal is for students to assume responsibility for their own learning, and to discover...

...Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it for himself; he must reinvent it.10 Renowned Italian educator Maria Montessori (1870-1952), unlike...

...Teachers. of course. can guide them by providing appropriate materials. but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something. he must construct it for himself; he must reinvent it" tPiaget. 1973s p. 271. Piaget observed that although repetitive practice...

...Teachers, of course, can guide them by providing appropriate materials, but the essential thing is that in order for a child to understand something, he must construct it for himself; he must reinvent it." (Piaget, 1972, cited in Bjorklund, 2000, P-75) In this view, student...

...ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2005. p. 781 (written c.1599-1609). CHAPTER 6 Ask, don't tell Every time we teach a child something, we keep him from inventing it by himself. (Jean Piaget, Some aspects of operations^) Introduction The Socratic lesson, it will be...